Preet Bharara Says Westchester Native Comey Had Courage To Say No To Trump

Preet Bharara has words of praise for former FBI Director James Comey and advise for President Donald Trump's administration.Photo Credit: NYU School of LawJames ComeyPhoto Credit: FBIPresident Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Poughkeepsie last year.Photo Credit: File photo

“In the tumult of this time, the question whose answer we should perhaps fear the most is the one evoked by that showdown: Are there still public servants who are prepared to say no to the president?,”
he wrote.

In the Washington Post op-ed, Bharara described this past week as "deja vu all over again for me."

Bharara goes on to lay out three things he believes the administration ought to do “to restore faith in the rule of law,” following Comey’s ousting, including a bipartisan investigation into Congress, appointing an “apolitical” new FBI director and additional oversight into the investigation regarding Russia.

“He can still fix it,” Bharara wrote. “History will judge this moment. It’s not too late to get it right, and justice demands it.”

Comey lived in Yonkers until he was a teenager before his family moved to Allendale, N.J., where he graduated High School. He is the grandson of longtime Yonkers police officer - and former Police Commissioner William Comey and served as a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York before being chosen by then President Barack Obama to head the FBI in 2013 on a 10-year appointment.

Comey also served as a deputy attorney general from December 2003 through August 2005 under President George W. Bush.

Trump, who owns the $19 million Seven Spring estate in Bedford, also owns Trump National Golf Club Hudson Valley in Stormville and Trump National Westchester in Briarcliff Manor. The Trump name also adorns Trump Tower At City Center in White Plains, Trump Plaza in New Rochelle, Trump Park Residences in Yorktown and the Donald J. Trump State Park on the Westchester/Putnam border.